In October 2025, questions surfaced over a supposed "WhatsApp Gold" update — an alleged premium version of WhatsApp that supposedly offers exclusive features like new emojis and better video quality.

In the latest ruling in a lengthy legal battle, commercial spyware company NSO Group was barred from targeting WhatsApp users after hacking into and installing spyware on thousands of devices. The ...

Meta-owned chat app WhatsApp changed its business API policy this week to ban general-purpose chatbots from its platform. The move will likely affect WhatsApp-based assistants of companies like OpenAI ...

If you chat with ChatGPT via WhatsApp, things are about to change. WhatsApp just updated its terms to ban general-purpose AI chatbots like Perplexity and ChatGPT starting Jan. 15, 2026. OpenAI ...

Meta’s WhatsApp API will ban general-purpose AI chatbots starting January 2026 Meta-owned WhatsApp has announced a major policy shift: from January 15, 2026, general-purpose AI chatbots will no longer ...

A federal judge has ordered spyware maker NSO to stop using its Pegasus app to target or infect users of WhatsApp. The ruling, issued Friday by Phyllis J. Hamilton of the US District Court of the ...

Starting next year, AI companies won’t be allowed to use WhatsApp as a chat interface. Here are the details. For the past few months, companies such as OpenAI and Perplexity have launched phone ...

Karandeep Singh Oberoi is a Durham College Journalism and Mass Media graduate who joined the Android Police team in April 2024, after serving as a full-time News Writer at Canadian publication ...

A federal judge has granted Meta-owned WhatsApp’s request for a permanent injunction blocking Israeli cyberintelligence company NSO Group from targeting the messaging app’s users. At the same time, ...

WhatsApp’s new in-app message translation feature lets you instantly translate chats without leaving the app. Just long-press a message, tap the three-dot menu, and choose “Translate.” Select your ...

Meta has announced new tools to help WhatsApp and Messenger users protect themselves from potential scams and secure their accounts. On Messenger, the company has started testing more advanced ...